5. Recalls the important role that 5. Union agencies play in helping to achieve policy objectives set by the European Parliament and the Council; calls therefore for sufficient funding and staffing for all agencies in line with their tasks and responsibilities; underlines in particular the need to substantially reinforce ACER, which has been underfunded and understaffed for many years, risking to jeopardise ACER’s functioning and its ability to perform its tasks on monitoring and market transparency as well as the additional tasks conferred on it through recent legislation including the Clean Energy Package; regrets that the Commission once again did not address this problem already in its draft budget; requests, furthermore, targeted increases for the European Union Agency for the Space Programme and for the; As noted by the European Parliament in its last discharge report, an appropriate increase of budget allocated to BEREC Ooffice is essential, due to the fact that BEREC is dependent on external resources and a company, which creates a risk of business continuity.